Saturday, March 8, 2008

238. WILL THE REAL JESUS CHRONICLERS PLEASE STAND UP?

From the Archives (July 2006) I just read that Dan Brown of Da Vinci Code fame claims that 80 gospels vied for inclusion in the New Testament canon.

Theologians say that only a few dozen gospels didn’t make it in (including The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which features a five-year-old boytoy Jesus making likenesses of sparrows from mud and bringing them to life).

Brown claims that thousands of Jesus fans recorded these neglected events about Jesus's life, but that’d be hard to believe, considering the low literacy rate among his followers.

SANG IN SHOWER: Tracy Droch’s “Did Jesus Have a Baby Sister?”

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